Examples

"The idea that they would attempt to go to a Mexican drug cartel to solicit murder-for-hire to kill the Saudi ambassador, nobody could make that up, right?" marvelled Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Los Angeles Police Department officers burst into her offices and placed Keshari under arrest for conspiracy to commit murder/murder-for-hire in conjunction with the prison murder of Richard Lawrence Tresvant.

While in prison, he allegedly expressed an interest in staging a murder-for-hire against a key witness from his trial—prompting an undercover investigation by the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr .

A Long Island man convicted in a $100 million mortgage-fraud scam has been charged with trying to orchestrate a murder-for-hire plot targeting a former associate who testified against him, people briefed on the investigation said.